Software Engineer – Hardware

🕒 November 1, 2025

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $310k - $460k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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OpenAI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

🏢 Enterprise

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Enterprise

OpenAI is a leading research organization and company dedicated to creating advanced artificial intelligence technology, with a strong emphasis on safety and ethical considerations. OpenAI's mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. The company develops AI products like ChatGPT, which can assist users with tasks ranging from everyday requests to complex enterprise solutions. OpenAI also provides an API platform that integrates its AI models into various applications. The company is focused on innovation in AI and improving data analysis capabilities, while emphasizing safety and ethical governance of their systems.

📋 Description

• Design and build APIs and runtime components to orchestrate computation and data movement across heterogeneous ML workloads. • Contribute to compiler infrastructure, including the development of optimizations and compiler passes to support evolving hardware. • Engineer and optimize compute and data kernels, ensuring correctness, high performance, and portability across simulation and production environments. • Profile and optimize system bottlenecks, especially around I/O, memory hierarchy, and interconnects, at both local and distributed scales. • Develop simulation infrastructure to validate runtime behaviors, test training stack changes, and support early-stage hardware and system development. • Rapidly deploy runtime and compiler updates to new supercomputing builds in close collaboration with hardware and research teams. • Work across a diverse stack, primarily using Rust and Python, with opportunities to influence architecture decisions across the training framework.

🎯 Requirements

• Have a deep curiosity for how large-scale systems work and enjoy making them faster, simpler, and more reliable. • Are proficient in systems programming (e.g., Rust, C++) and scripting languages like Python. • Have experience in one or more of the following areas: compiler development, kernel authoring, accelerator programming, runtime systems, distributed systems, or high-performance simulation. • Are excited to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with evolving hardware and ML system demands. • Value engineering excellence, technical leadership, and thoughtful system design.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law) • Mental health and wellness support • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible • Relocation support for eligible employees • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.